kc5tja wrote:
The problem is that a 6502-based piece of hardware will not sell. A C64 is a home computer, and people expect home computers to connect to the Internet, display web pages with Javascript (and sometimes even Java) support, you'll need flash plug-ins so people can play their online games, etc. Even a 65816 won't keep up with that.
There is a C-64 accellerator out there and I've seen it. It is a card version that runs off of a computer's internal slot and I believe it had ethernet. I know ethernet was available for the C-64.
They're interfering by buying the rights to the name which also extends to keyboard Amiga computers. Amiga users are still writing programs and still using their computers to this day.
Here is the problem. Courts sold the Amiga and Amiga IP to two different companies. One was called Eyetech. It went out of business and then it eventually became Amiga (Amiga Delaware). Amigakit owns all of the old stock and they still sell Amigas on the net. On the side, there are these new machines like the Minimig, and different versions of SAM computers which run the Amiga operating system.
Hyperion Entertainment was contracted by Amiga to write an operating system and then it was time to make the final payment and Amiga was either late or didn't make the final payment and Hyperion said,"You don't have a license." It went to court and after spending two years there, the court found in favor of Hyperion granting them rights to the Amiga name.
Here you have some company in Florida buying the name to keyboard Amigas. There is a good chance they might be in court over the name because Hyperion won the right to use Amiga which is a trademark and here you have some start up company buying the name that Hyperion has the rights to. If Hyperion can't sell the Amiga operating system because some other company has the trademark then Amiga users lose. If Hyperion sues Commodore USA then all of you who bought the Commodore P64 all lose.